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Overhead view of Tumon Bay, Guam

Could solving a Guam medical mystery help explain complex brain diseases?

A medical mystery on the island of Guam has perplexed investigators for more than half a century. In a recent National Institutes of Health lecture, Daniel Perl, MD, posits that renewed investigations of cases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and dementia on Guam could lead to therapies or cures for patients with related neurological disorders.

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Sickle cell research in Africa yields global benefits

Researchers studying sickle cell disease (SCD) in Tanzania, Ghana, Uganda and Nigeria discuss their work and the potential benefits for patients worldwide.

Sickle cell disease in Africa

In the photo on this page, Dr. Gene F. Kwan, wearing a checkered shirt, attends to a patient lying in a hospital bed in Haiti

NHLBI funds cardiovascular research in Haiti

Gene Kwan discusses his work in rural Rwanda, Haiti, Malawi, Liberia, and India

Cardiovascular research in Haiti 

A research worker, wearing a hair net, face mask, and glasses, holding a Butantan Dengue vaccine

Brazil produces a single-dose dengue vaccine developed at NIH

Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency approved the world’s first single-dose dengue vaccine, which is based on the research and clinical development of NIAID scientists.

Research on Dengue fever

More global health research stories from around NIH

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID): Database of international clinical trial regulations marks a decade
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS): Reframing the mental health stressors of Syrian refugees
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH): NIMH marks 75 years of mental health research
National Institute on Aging (NIA): Prevalence of dementia in India underestimated
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR): NIDCR funds oral health training in Thailand
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK): Facing the challenge of undiagnosed diabetes in Africa
NIH Common Fund: H3Africa resources endure beyond its end
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID): South-South partnership bolsters the fight against viral disease in West Africa
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB): Engineering a new molecule to neutralize venoms
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD): Bitter cassava, bitter irony: Teaching methos to detoxify cassava to prevent konzo
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS): Studying the effect of pesticide on Thai farmers
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR): Defining the genetics behind cleft palate
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA): Illicit drugs across the Americas: an era of synthetic drugs

Global health initiatives at NIH

Many NIH Institutes, Centers and Offices (ICOs) are engaged in global health research and research training activities.

Global health initiatives at NIH

Recent global health news from NIH

At 20, the African Journal Partnership Program Enters Young Adulthood
National Library of Medicine’s Musing From the Mezzanine blog, April 3, 2024
Experimental Ebola Vaccines Found Safe and Capable of Producing Immune Responses in Healthy Adults
NIAID news, April 3, 2024
US-Sweden Cancer Summit - Bridging the Research to Implementation Gap
National Cancer Institute, Center for Global Health news, March 13, 2024

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Updated September 2, 2026